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4.5 stars
"A lot fun in a little package"
Pros: Size and portability
keyboard is tolerable
Easy to set upCons: A little extra work to get programs installed w/out a cd rom drive.
Summary: I really researched this product. I almost bought the dell mini inspiron 9, which also looks good, but I felt that it was important to see and try it in person. I bought this one at Circuit City today. I was looking for a mini laptop for travel that I could use mainly for reading emails but also for light document editing. Try keyboards first if you can. Lenovo also has a great keyboard. The one on this hp is good too. I don't think I would use this as a laptop replacement but it is a great road machine and a great machine to have around the house. It is about 2.5 pounds and very small. I loaded amazon unbox to watch videos, ms office (which loaded fine) and I also connected it to my hp media vault server. Everything works like a regular laptop. It's a little slower but very fast with web pages. It's a really fun machine. You can't customize these machines much, but I strongly recommend getting max memory (or buying it preconfig'd with 512, then throwing out that memory and installing a 2gb card). I almost got a 16gb solid state drive, but I opted for this one which has a 60gb hard disk. Reality is, once you have a pc, you want faster and you want to install more programs. Even a netbook requires productivity programs (to view powerpoints or excel files or word docs), so you really need to have a decent size hard drive, even if you think you are only going to use this as a internet client. Just not realistic at this point. I got everything that I wanted installed in a short time, and I really like the portability of the machine and the size of the keyboard.
1gb memory limitation driven by MSFT adds step of upgrading memory manually.
No MS Office options - but you can add it yourself after purchase
